{"id":1609,"date":"2013-01-21T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/01\/them-niggas-got-shot-the-disturbing-idolatry-of-king-obama.html"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T09:41:00","slug":"them-niggas-got-shot-the-disturbing-idolatry-of-king-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/01\/them-niggas-got-shot-the-disturbing-idolatry-of-king-obama.html","title":{"rendered":"Them Niggas Got Shot: The Disturbing Idolatry of King & Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/a>by Gee Joyner<\/a><\/span>
R3 Contributor<\/span>

<\/span>I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll be rhetorically crucified in cyberspace by the American Negro. I am almost positive this text may have an adverse effect on my personal, and. possibly, professional networks and even my occupation. But I must do this. I must write this. I must continue writing this piece in order for me to rid myself, and my constituency of an internal and explicit hypocrisy. A few times a year I travel to scholarly\/academic conferences and listen to presentations of the numerous nuances of the ills of the \u201cBlack American Community\u201d or the \u201cBlack Problem in America\u201d or \u201cWhat Blacks Need to Do Better\u201d and I get disgusted, fidgety, and begin to feel out of place. Just as out of place as I did when I was in elementary school when I was always the only Black kid in the class, or at recess, and, sometimes, at lunch. The majority, in my opinion, was the other. I guess you could say that I had reverse-xenophobia.\u00a0<\/span>

<\/span>\u00a0I always feel socially uncomfortable with the gullible or those who revel in media interpretations of an event or an individual. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of principles and a man of flaws. Just like Barack Hussein Obama. Except King\u2019s social infidelities are more widely known because of J.Edgar Hoover (i.e. whore mongering, marital infidelities, sexual\u00a0deviances\u00a0 if you will\u2014he allegedly patronized prostitutes per Hoover and the late Rev. Ralph Abernathy). Yet, we all must understand, that Obama, just as Dr. King, is and was human. I fear that too many of us laud these men\u2019s secular accomplishments and deem the two to be deities in a sense as it pertains to the Black American struggle and pseudo-triumph over U.S. racist institutions (i.e. social, economical, and political).\u00a0<\/span>

<\/span>I have been mildly entertained and hugely perturbed by cyber-debates that give analyses as to whether President Obama should be publicly sworn into office on the nation\u2019s reserved federal holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the analogous anecdotes of irony that have inundated Facebook posts and the Twittersphere. Many believe that it is only fitting that the first Black President of the United States is being sworn in on the King holiday and will be sworn in with a bible which once belonged to Dr. King to take the oath. The ironic thing to me is that we, as a very informed and knowledgeable audience, are even comparing the two men. One is a prophet at the least and the other is a politician at best. One dedicated his adult life to the Black Civil Rights Movement, as well as the Poor People\u2019s Movement and the anti-war effort concerning the United States\u2019 involvement and occupancy of Vietnam, and the other is a politician whom, whether it is in his heart or a mere political agenda to sway voters, has fought for women\u2019s and LGBT rights and is a warmonger by default (no U.S. politician can be elected Head of State without a plan for \u201cnational security\u201d which is political jargon for U.S. protection via war and the possibility of war). <\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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